I think I said it more clearly in my edit: it will look weird if we skip over better players in the future while keeping up lesser players from our past. You want the banners to reflect the best in the franchise. But we might have set the bar too low to do that.

That may end up being a legitimate argument when all is said and done.

Though that has nothing to do with whether or not we win cups now or in the near future. That's simply a "X player is not deserving of the honor of a number being retired or having a status" argument, which is fair.